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According to Microsoft, Office Live Basics includes:

• free web hosting and domain name
• User friendly design tools for your website
• 500 MB of storage on your site
• 25 business e-mail accounts branded specifically for your company
• Site reports, and...
• A tool for promoting your site to the search engines

Given the choice between outsourcing to a design firm and other options, bootstrapper Denise Aday suggests ready made business platforms may be the way to go if budget is a major consideration.

She explains:

If my financial picture was the same, but I knew about the free, ready-made platforms, I would have gone that route instead. Just having the layout and navigation in place would have saved loads of time.

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